Israel - Haaretz reporter Uri Blau facing up to seven years in prison

Reporters without borders

After the journalist Anat Kam received a heavy jail sentence at the end of October for supplying Haaretz reporter Uri Blau with copies of classified military documents she had obtained while doing her military service, Reporters Without Borders wrote to attorney general Yehuda Weinstein on 3 November about the case against Blau. Blau is facing a possible seven-year sentence on a charge of “holding classified information without authorisation and without intention to harm the security of the (...)

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